Japanese Imperial Family Today

  The Akishino family is decisively unpopular with the Japanese people despite having the first and second highest ranking male heirs to the throne. Every day, the Internet is filled with criticism of their every move. In February, they are said to face two difficult problems, FRIDAY 　 DIGITAL reported on January 30. The two are Hisahito's higher education and Kei Komuro's bar exam.   First of all, there is the issue of the higher education of Hisahito, the second in line to the throne, who is 15 this year. At present, the issue of his "privileged admission" to Tsukuba University's affiliated high school (Chikuzuke), one of the most advanced schools in Japan, through the "Affiliated School Admission System", is being discussed and is attracting public attention.   This system was introduced by the University of Tsukuba and Ochanomizu University in 2017, and is considered to be a time-limited measure for five years. There will be no acad

  As someone who has run an English-language blog on Japan's Imperial Family, I sincerely hope that the contents of this article will attract widespread interest not only in Japan but also abroad.   The main points of this article are as follows. The government report on the stable succession to the throne has the following problems: (1) The situation in which Prince Hisahito is the sole heir to the throne is extremely dangerous. (2) The design of the system in which female members of the Imperial Family will remain in the IF after marriage, but their spouses and children will remain citizens will further raise the hurdle for female members of the IF, including Her Imperial Highness Princess Toshinomiya Aiko, to marry. 3) The proposal to allow male members of the former IF to immediately become members of the IF, means that their spouses and children will become members of the IF, which is a more male-dominated system than that of the female members of the Imperial Fa